Faster base64 encoding for Go, based on Turbo-Base64.
Features
- Drop-in replacement of
encoding/base64.- except for error messages and ignoring
\rand\nin decoder.
- except for error messages and ignoring
- up to 3 times faster than
encoding/base64. - Dependency-free.
Install
Go version 1.16+
go get github.com/cristalhq/base64
How to use
Replace import statement from encoding/base64 to github.com/cristalhq/base64
-import "encoding/base64" +import "github.com/cristalhq/base64"
go1.17 linux/amd64, Intel i7-7700
std/Encode 685.3 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
std/EncodeToString 951.8 ns/op 2048 B/op 2 allocs/op
std/Decode 803.9 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
std/DecodeString 1061 ns/op 1792 B/op 2 allocs/op
own/Encode 217.8 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
own/EncodeToString 353.2 ns/op 1024 B/op 1 allocs/op
own/Decode 426.0 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
own/DecodeString 598.7 ns/op 768 B/op 1 allocs/op
go1.17 darwin/arm64, Apple M1
std/Encode 413.0 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
std/EncodeToString 608.3 ns/op 2048 B/op 2 allocs/op
std/Decode 372.5 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
std/DecodeString 570.2 ns/op 1792 B/op 2 allocs/op
own/Encode 146.7 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
own/EncodeToString 246.4 ns/op 1024 B/op 1 allocs/op
own/Decode 222.8 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
own/DecodeString 303.1 ns/op 768 B/op 1 allocs/op
Documentation
See these docs.